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Focus 2012
The Oklahoma Department of Libraries is focused on impacting the lives of individual Oklahomans.
Here’s how ODL made a difference in 2012.
Summer Reading
ODL is encouraging Oklahoma’s public libraries
to expand the annual Summer Reading Program
to include activities for pre-schoolers and teens.
Of the 106,575 enrolled summer readers, 29%
were either pre-K or older than 12. Attendance
at pre-school storytimes alone exceeded 25,000.
Libraries prepare our youngest for the
school days ahead, and keep teens
reading during the summer
months. All of our young
people can benefit from
the program. Funded
with federal dollars.
The Power of
Literacy
The $214,233 in state
literacy funding provid-ed
a $1.8 million return
on investment in terms of
volunteer hours. ODL’s literacy
program works to expand and
enhance its support of local volun-teer
literacy providers to meet the needs of
Oklahoma’s adult learners, from training tutors,
to providing assistance for those with learning
disabilities, to a recent partnership with health
providers for a Health Literacy initiative. Funded
with state and federal dollars.
State Aid Flexibility
Public libraries can use their annual State Aid
payments to enhance their collection, invest in
technology, help with administrative cost, or
support programs to serve their communities.
ODL gives local public libraries the power to de-termine
the best way to use the resource, and
nothing illustrates the importance of this policy
more than the recent economic downturn. While
many communities struggled with falling revenue,
the state’s public libraries saw circulation increase
from 20.7 million in 2008 to 22 million currently,
and library card registration went from 1.8 million
to 1.9 million. State Aid was there to help.
Access to
Information
Oklahomans continue
to discover and use the
statewide online data-bases,
which provide
access to millions of
full-text magazine arti-cles,
encyclopedias, plus
business and health infor-mation.
Database searches
increased in FY2012 to 50
million, up 20% from the pre-vious
year. ODL has invested in
e-book collections and Interlibrary
Loan so all public libraries have the oppor-tunity
to serve their customers with a broader
range of resources. Funded with federal dollars.
Training &
Continuing Education
Attendance at ODL-sponsored training and CE
events eclipsed 5,400 in FY2012. The agency knows
that putting tools and training in the hands of lo-cal
providers is what makes the difference for our
fellow Oklahomans. Librarians, literacy providers,
teachers, government employees, and members

Focus 2012
The Oklahoma Department of Libraries is focused on impacting the lives of individual Oklahomans.
Here’s how ODL made a difference in 2012.
Summer Reading
ODL is encouraging Oklahoma’s public libraries
to expand the annual Summer Reading Program
to include activities for pre-schoolers and teens.
Of the 106,575 enrolled summer readers, 29%
were either pre-K or older than 12. Attendance
at pre-school storytimes alone exceeded 25,000.
Libraries prepare our youngest for the
school days ahead, and keep teens
reading during the summer
months. All of our young
people can benefit from
the program. Funded
with federal dollars.
The Power of
Literacy
The $214,233 in state
literacy funding provid-ed
a $1.8 million return
on investment in terms of
volunteer hours. ODL’s literacy
program works to expand and
enhance its support of local volun-teer
literacy providers to meet the needs of
Oklahoma’s adult learners, from training tutors,
to providing assistance for those with learning
disabilities, to a recent partnership with health
providers for a Health Literacy initiative. Funded
with state and federal dollars.
State Aid Flexibility
Public libraries can use their annual State Aid
payments to enhance their collection, invest in
technology, help with administrative cost, or
support programs to serve their communities.
ODL gives local public libraries the power to de-termine
the best way to use the resource, and
nothing illustrates the importance of this policy
more than the recent economic downturn. While
many communities struggled with falling revenue,
the state’s public libraries saw circulation increase
from 20.7 million in 2008 to 22 million currently,
and library card registration went from 1.8 million
to 1.9 million. State Aid was there to help.
Access to
Information
Oklahomans continue
to discover and use the
statewide online data-bases,
which provide
access to millions of
full-text magazine arti-cles,
encyclopedias, plus
business and health infor-mation.
Database searches
increased in FY2012 to 50
million, up 20% from the pre-vious
year. ODL has invested in
e-book collections and Interlibrary
Loan so all public libraries have the oppor-tunity
to serve their customers with a broader
range of resources. Funded with federal dollars.
Training &
Continuing Education
Attendance at ODL-sponsored training and CE
events eclipsed 5,400 in FY2012. The agency knows
that putting tools and training in the hands of lo-cal
providers is what makes the difference for our
fellow Oklahomans. Librarians, literacy providers,
teachers, government employees, and members